Favorite Quotations and Passages.....

Time stays long enough for those who use it ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Life is just a chance to grow a soul ~ A.Powell Davies

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it ~ Buddha

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~ Kahlil Gibran

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up ~ Jesse Jackson

Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it ~ Ferris Beuhler

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors ~ Author Unknown

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake ~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art teaches nothing except the significance of life ~ Henry Miller

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly ~ Proverb

I don't know whether I'm a woman dreaming I'm a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I'm a woman ~ Zhuangzi

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see ~ Edgar Degas

What in your life is calling you?  When all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooming itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul?  In the silence between your heartbeats hides a summons.  Do you hear it?  Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?
The Terma Collective:  "The Box: Remembering The Gift"

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it ~ Anais Nin

Tears are the words the heart can't express ~ Author Unknown

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born ~ Anais Nin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace....God is awake ~ Victor Hugo

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard ~ Standing Bear

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of you mind ~ Kahil Gibran